The mystery of adding LED lights to a modern BMW with CAN Bus (Controller Area Network) electrical system is easy to resolve. The “smart” CAN Bus smells a rat when you pop in an LED brake light or ...

Many LEDs, those highly popular Light Emitting Diodes, die prematurely because they are improperly used by people who know little to nothing about electronics. Let's try to stop the massacre. An LED ...

Infrastructure projects like the Tokyo Gate Bridge are now turning to LED lighting because of its economical and environmental advantages. But these devices still need the right current-limiting ...

Editors’ Note: This segment is adapted from Chapter 2 of Power Supplies for LED Driving by Steve Winder. Since an LED behaves like a constant voltage load, it can be directly connected to a current ...

Knowing how to calculate an LED current limiting resistor is one thing, taking into account all other sorts of parameters as well is another. In Part 1 you learned how to calculate a current limiting ...